
Houston Matters
The Perspective Of A First-Generation College Graduate In Houston
Posted on · Yolanda Norman talks about her experience as the first in her family to go to college.
Posted on · Yolanda Norman talks about her experience as the first in her family to go to college.
Posted on · We meet Houstonian Yolanda Norman. She’s originally from Memphis and has been in Houston since 2007. She’s a first-generation college graduate and is currently a doctoral student. She talks about the rarity of women of color in tenured faculty at universities and about her experience as the first in her family to go to college. […]
Posted on · When school starts this month, some teenagers will find themselves where — just a few years ago — they didn't imagine they’d be: at college. In Houston Public Media’s ongoing series Inside the Classroom, two new college freshmen talk about what they had to overcome to get there. Victor Rodriguez, 18, recently graduated from Spring […]